miRNAs may play a major role in the control of gene expression in key pathobiological processes in Chagas disease cardiomyopathy.

• Main Authors: Laurie Laugier (Author), Ludmila Rodrigues Pinto Ferreira (Author), Frederico Moraes Ferreira (Author), Sandrine Cabantous (Author), Amanda Farage Frade (Author), Joao Paulo Nunes (Author), Rafael Almeida Ribeiro (Author), Pauline Brochet (Author), Priscila Camillo Teixeira (Author), Ronaldo Honorato Barros Santos (Author), Edimar A Bocchi (Author), Fernando Bacal (Author), Darlan da Silva Cândido (Author), Vanessa Escolano Maso (Author), Helder I Nakaya (Author), Jorge Kalil (Author), Edecio Cunha-Neto (Author), Christophe Chevillard (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chronic Chagas disease cardiomyopathy (CCC), an especially aggressive inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathy caused by lifelong infection with the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is a major cause of cardiomyopathy in Latin America. Although chronic myocarditis may play a major pathogenetic role, little is...